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Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan Jr. (born March 20, 1951) Jimmie Vaughan on growing up in Oak Cliff, making 'Family Style' album, Oakcliff.advocatemag.com, retrieved April 7, 2018 is an American blues rock guitarist and singer based in Austin, Texas.. A founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, he is the older brother of the Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Several notable blues guitarists have had a significant influence on Vaughan's playing style, including the "Three Kings" (Albert King, Freddie King, and B.B. King) and Johnny "Guitar" Watson.
In 1966, Vaughan joined The Chessmen after the death of original band leader, guitarist, and vocalist, Robert Patton. In 1969, The Chessmen opened for The Jimi Hendrix Experience in Fort Worth, Texas. It was at this show that Vaughan lent Jimi Hendrix his Vox Wah-wah pedal which Hendrix ended up breaking. In return, Hendrix gave Vaughan his own touring Wah-wah pedal.
Jimmie Vaughan developed his own easily recognized personal style. He formed the band The Fabulous Thunderbirds with lead singer and harmonica Kim Wilson, bassist Keith Ferguson, and drummers Mike Buck and Fran Christina. (The original Fabulous Thunderbirds were all Mentorship of Austin, Texas blues club owner Clifford Antone). The band's first four albums, released between 1979 and 1983, are ranked among the most important 'white blues' recordings. These early albums did not sell well, so the band was left without a recording contract for a couple of years (during the time when Vaughan's younger brother achieved commercial success). During this time, Vaughan played lead guitar on fellow Texas blues musician Bill Carter's 1985 album, Stompin' Grounds, also playing Carter's most well-known song, "Willie The Wimp", which would be introduced a year later to Stevie Ray Vaughan and played on live albums.
The Fabulous Thunderbirds got a new contract in 1986, and made several albums with a more commercially popular sound and production style. Vaughan left the band in 1990, and made his only "duo album", Family Style, with his younger brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan. (1992). 9780851129396, Guinness Publishing. ISBN 9780851129396 Before the album's release, Stevie Ray died in a helicopter crash along with three members of Eric Clapton's entourage in East Troy, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1990. The album was released a month after the accident. The artist listed on the album was "The Vaughan Brothers". The album was light, blues-influenced rock, with Jimmie Vaughan singing on several tracks.
Since 1997 Fender has produced a Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Stratocaster. Vaughan appeared in the 1998 released film Blues Brothers 2000 as a member of the fictional "Louisiana Gator Boys" blues band led by B. B. King. Vaughan was the third opening act for most of the dates of Bob Dylan's summer 2006 tour, preceded by Elana James and the Continental Two and Junior Brown.
Vaughan continues to perform. Shout! Factory released his first new album in nine years, Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites, on July 6, 2010.
Also in 2010, he appeared as a guest musician on Eric Johnson's album Up Close, and he played with Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, BB King, Hubert Sumlin, and others during the Crossroads Guitar Festival. He also performed on the episode of the TBS cable television show Conan, that aired December 22, 2010.
Vaughan performed at the 11th Edition of the Rochester International Jazz Festival on Friday, June 29, 2012.
In 2014, Vaughan performed at the Mahindra Blues Festival in India alongside the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Vaughan appeared and performed as a guest on an episode of the PBS cable television show Austin City Limits, with the Foo Fighters, which aired on February 7, 2015. He and the Foo Fighters were accompanied on stage by another guest guitarist, Gary Clark, Jr., a native of Austin, Texas.
His 2019 recording, Baby, Please Come Home, was chosen as a 'Favorite Blues Album' by AllMusic.
Vaughan performed with Bob Dylan in Austin, Texas on April 6, 2024, as a guest guitarist. He replaced Doug Lancio on nine songs.
Vaughan is close friends with Dennis Quaid. They worked together on the film Great Balls of Fire.
Vaughan loves classic and custom car cars, and is an avid car collector. Vaughan has had many of his customs and hot rods displayed in museums, as well as featured in rodding and custom magazines.For instance, Street Rodder, 1/85, p. 55, and Rod & Custom, 4/00, pp. 88–91
Vaughan has been politically active to some degree. He endorsed Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in 2008 and played before one of Paul's speeches at the University of Texas. Vaughan also opened for Ron Paul's keynote address at the Rally for the Republic in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 2, 2008. Vaughan appeared with Boz Scaggs & The Blue Velvet Band at the 2009 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Vaughan performed at Ron Paul's "We are the Future" rally in Tampa, Florida on August 26, 2012.
Vaughan was quoted as explaining that the death of his brother, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, devastated him to the point that he considered giving up playing guitar.
In May 2024, Vaughan announced that he was postponing all tour dates to undergo treatment for "a curable form of cancer."
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